Its patch day for Defiance. Today marks the official launch of the 3rd DLC installment to Trions dubbed transmedia MMOG with the 7th Legion. The 7th Legion DLC adds the new 7th Legion faction to Defiance, new contracts and stipends for members that complete incursions, new 7th Legion weapons, mods, shield effects, and more.

PC and Xbox 360 players can download the DLC starting today. PlayStation 3 Season Pass holders can also download the DLC, but standalone versions will be made available to PS3 players on February 18th in the US and February 19th in EU. In the meantime, you can read the official patch notes below.

When a player is out of a particular consumable, the HUD icon for it now glows red to signify it.

Added a cooldown bar for vehicle summoning.

Removed green items from merchant when purple items appear

Added a new setting in the Gameplay options menu to filter Mass Breakdown by item rarity.

Pressing Extract from the map screen while incapacitated now applies the death penalty appropriately

The map legend now allows input regardless of its length.

Clans: Member options are once again accessible for gamepads.

Triage Center emergency can now be completed even if enemies appear nearby.

Reduced the counts on Echelon Contracts-- some of them were quite unreasonable.

Added Echelon reputation rewards to competitive multiplayer matches.

CHAT SYSTEM UPDATE

Chat no longer brings up the huge chat window-- instead, brings focus to the chat window.

Specify the number of chat tabs and what filters they use on the options screen.

If you're using a controller, you can switch chat tabs with the left and right bumper.

On a controller, navigate channels by hitting d-pad left while in chat mode, and then the A button.

Chat and voice are now separate channels.

WEAPONS

Weapon Mastery: Sniper Rifles, Shotguns (excluding sawed off), and Detonators/Rocket launchers with clip sizes larger than 1 now get a flat increase to clip size from their mastery, as opposed to a percentage based increase.

Volge Battle Rifle reticule now better indicates the spread of the shots when fired from the hip and when aimed.

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